Garrett CORNELISON

Notes:

One of the signers of this petition is a Jesse Cornelison. It is a petition to create Grundy Co, TN, in 1843.
"Memorials of large numbers of Warren, Coffee & Marion a majority for & a minority against the establishment of a new county S SE of the counties of Coffee, Warren & N of Marion. 2 January 1844 report by S. D . Mitchell, Clk.. A new county beginning at the centre of the stage road leading from McMinnville where the Coffee County line crosses the same thence with the centre of said road South to a point between Benjamin Douglass & Stephen Wintons thence E up the mountain to the top thence with meanders of the bluff tot the line of District # 13 in Coffee County thence with said line to the line of Franklin Couinty thence E with said line to James Petty near the foot of Cumberland Mt. Thence with the burned stand road to the line of Marion County thence with said line to the lineof Marion County thence with said line to the line of Warren County thence with the line of Warren County to the line of Van Buren County thence W with said line tot he corner near Jesse Savage's thence round the bluffs of Hills Creek..."

Buried:
On his farm in Barry, Missouri

Notes:

"Revolutionary Incidents and Sketches of Character Chiefly in the 'Old North State'" by Rev. E. W. Caruthers, D. D. 1854 & 1856.
p. 104. " A man, by the name of John Cornelison, who lived near the gold and silver mines in Davidson County, was killed in his own house, and in a manner which indicated great barbarity. When several of them went in and fell upon him with clubs and swords, he got back under the mantlepiece, when they shot him down, and he fell into the fire; but his wife pulled him out. Next morning, Mrs Ann Briggs, the mother-in-law of Jacob Goss, Esq. who was originally a Miss Collins, from the neighborhood of Wilmington, went over and saw the body of Cornelison. The hearth was deluged with blood, and the house presented a most frightful scene. The man who shot Cornelison was known, and Cornelison had a relation by the name of Spirey, who was determined to revenge his death. He pursued the Tory who shot Cornelison, and followed his trail into Tennessee. At length he reached the house of a woman who was a relation of his; and thinking himself out of danger, he stopped there for the night; but Spirey was there and, with the stealthiness of an Indian, was watching the house, when he heard the murderer tell his relation, the mistress of the house, that he would pull off his clothes to sleep; for he had not had them off since leaving North Carolina. While he was stripping and preparing for bed; Spirey, being certain of his man, run the muzzle of his gun through a crack or opening between the logs, and shot him dead. Spirey then returned to his home in North Carolina; and this affair was the last of the kind that occured during the struggle for independence. Such scenes present to us the horror of civil war in a strong light, and while they were the price of our liberties, they should serve as a perpetual warning to guard, most vigilantly and strenuously, against everything of the kind to the end of time."

It is unknown at this time whether Jonathan was the son of Conrad or Cornelius.

Jonathan married COX. (daughter of Henry S COX and Mary BROWN) was born on 23 Sep 1751 in , Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Conrad Cornelison
• Residence: 1762, , Loudoun, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1764, , Rowan, North Carolina, USA
• Will: Oct 1789, , Wilkes, Georgia, USA
• Probate: 30 Mar 1795, , Wilkes, Georgia, USA

Notes:

The children and marriages in these generations of this family are so sketchy that I cannot truthfully say that any of this is fact. Each researcher gives a different opinion. Conrad and Cornelius are especially embroiled in doubts and wonderment.
In Nancy Roberts' book, she says that Cornelius is the father of Garrett, Ann, John, William, and Andrew by an unknown first wife. She gives his second spouse as Margaret.
She says Conrad is the father of Garrett, Hannah, Anne, Jonathan, John, Conrad, Andrew, and William by Anne. Anne was named in Conrad's will.

Residence:
Tenant

Conradt married Anne ??? about 1749. Anne was born about 1735; died about 1806. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Mary BROWN. Mary was born about 1726; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]